# Recommended robots.txt for WordPress
# Last Updated: 2025-07-07

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/

Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Allow theme assets for proper page rendering
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/flatsome/assets/

# --- AI Crawler Rules ---

# Allow OpenAI's Search Bot (Powers ChatGPT Discovery)
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow:

# Allow Google's Generative AI (Gemini & AI Overviews)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow:

# Allow Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow:

# Block OpenAI's general model training bot
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# Block Anthropic's model training bot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

# Block Common Crawl's data scraper
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

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